Initiatives for Women2014 Ashley LaBoda, SPN PhD, Karen R. Hitchcock New Frontiers Fund scholarship award2012 Abeer Aloush, SPN PhD, Spring grant for Research for her project "The relationship between religion and violence: multiculturalism and Islamism in the French suburbs"

UAlbany Presidential Award for Undergraduate Research2012 Pamela Alvarado, FRE major and SPN minor, for her project "Variation and Maintenance of Spanish in Colorado: The Case of Fort Lupton"2012 John Teevan III, FRE major, for his Honors Thesis in French Studies (with Professor Jean-François Brière): “Golden Age or Rusted Decline? The Successes and Failures of the Third Republic in France, 1870-1940.”